Temple Run

Goug

Quite a lot has happened since the last time, dear squire. We had fully intended to raid Nelveska temple for treasure, but things didn’t exactly turn out as we had envisioned them. But oh, how things have turned out!

Let me start this riveting tale with how we ended up in Goug yet again. I had convinced Rapha to come treasure hunting with us. She was rather good at it and tavern rumours claimed there were treasured weapons hidden all over the temple, some even up on a pillar. As a Dragoon, I could easily make the jump to the top of any pillar, but Rapha didn’t even know the first thing about jumping and I wasn’t the skilled treasure hunter she was. Ramza’s Construct 8 could help. Entirely by accident I had noticed before that, placed in the right spot, it could be used as a stepping stone. She’d be fine.

Just as I had convinced her, Mustadio got another message from his father. He had found another relic in the mines below Goug that he needed us to see. Mustadio jumped at the chance and pulled us all along, because he knew that if his father found something, it would be worth seeing.

And right he was. The contraption that Besrudio had dug up had the look of an orrery, and just as with the Construct, a zodiac glyph adorned the base. Like as not, if we wanted to know what this thing did – and Mustadio did – we had to go on another search for the Cancer stone.

As luck would have it, more rumours pertaining to the Nelveska temple suggested that an iron giant not unlike our trusted Construct guarded the temple, so there was a good chance that we would still find auracite there.

Nelveska Temple

We found much and more at the temple. Not only did our trusted Construct find his brother guarding an ancient, however brief the encounter, there were also hydras guarding more ancient relics perched on pillars. One of them took a liking to me and it didn’t take me long to tame it. The only thing we did not find here was the opportunity to grab any of the ancient relics before Construct 7 malfunctioned and claimed to self-detonate. We had seen our own Construct 8 in action often enough to realise we had to make ourselves scarse.

After the explosion that blasted our opportunity to ever retrieve those relics we’d seen scattered about, Beowulf was adamant that he and his dragon should go and retrieve the auracite that the malfunctioning Construct had guarded.

I don’t know how to explain what happened next. Instead of the dragon, Beowulf came back positively gleaming! By his side was no longer his trusty dragon but… A lady? The dragon was a hume all this time?!

She showed us the Cancer stone, and that was our cue to leave for Goug again. Underway, Reis – now a beautiful damsel – explained that she had been cursed this entire time, by the creature that we had slain in the Gollund mines. He had been a hume too, jealous of her and Beowulf’s bethrottal… The love story was so mystifying that even Agrias was gripped by it.

We couldn’t be more excited. We were going back to Goug with the Cancer auracite, which was just what we needed to get that orrery in motion. And we had our own pet hydra that we could breed. And we had a new member in our team! Though in hindsight she wasn’t exactly new… I caught myself wondering what new and exciting things could come from the device in Besrudio’s workshop.

Little did I expect it to be a dimension transporter which would deliver unto us a half-wit who ran out of the workshop as soon as he was able to stand, screaming something about someone named Sephiroth.

Is that another Lucavi?

I am Bathsua, temple raider, and these are my memoirs.